Marilyn Horne Quotes
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.
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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
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Peace between Israel and Palestine is a top priority for the European Union, and it will remain a top priority in our political agenda.
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I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
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As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.
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You can sense their anger before they even say a word.
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The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
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Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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My sister is my very favorite person, and I dedicated 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before' to her.
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It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
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I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.
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Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.
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The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
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There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
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I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself.
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Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.
